Home - August 7, 2005
DooM is a first-person shooter game for the PC that was developed and released
by id Software in 1993. The game revolutionised the gaming industry by becoming
the basis on which other games of a similar genre were compared to. The game is
a simple manner: You, as the only surviving marine on one of Mars' moons, have
the sole duty to take on hoards of zombies and hellspawn in order to stop hell
from unleashing itself upon humanity.

The music in DooM was created by Robert Prince. It doesn't take a genius to
realise that several of the tracks in the game were heavily influenced from rock
music by other bands. Originally, Prince was asked to compose the DooM soundtrack
entirely out of covers of rock songs. He disputed the idea knowing that some of
the levels in DooM simply wouldn't have had the right atmosphere under those
circumstances; so he and John Romero sat down and chewed out a mix of rock covers
and some of Prince's own unique style of creepy music which we would now recognise
as "DooM style." Since Prince used rock songs as source material, it's ironic in
a way that some of the resulting tunes are actually remixes in the sense that they
borrow melody lines and patterns from the source and turn it into its own unique
music.

The Dark Side of Phobos was an OverClocked Remix site project that had the intent
to mix a large portion of the soundtrack to one of the most important games of the
first person shooter genre, DooM. The project was created in the wake of Kong
in Concert and was originally maintained by klm09. After some months, the
project began to slip away into obscurity and in November of 2004 I was asked to
take control of the project and try to salvage it. After months of hard work on the
part of all the mixers, controversy and arguments, and artists dropping and picking
up songs (amongst other travesties) we are finally here, at the end: The successful
completion of The Dark Side of Phobos.